The Daily Bruin

Faculty, staff, and students are invited to the inaugural Spring Peace and Justice Symposium session sponsored by the Center for Peace and Justice. The event is scheduled from 7 to 9 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 16, in the Special Collections Room on the second floor of the library on the Newberg campus.

Clint Baldwin (Political Science) will make an opening statement, followed by an introduction by President Robin Baker. Presenters will be Lisa McMinn (Sociology) and Mark McMinn (Psychology).

The symposium will explore and celebrate the diversity of approaches for exemplifying Christ’s all-inclusive call to peace and justice in our lives.

Questions? Contact Baldwin (cbaldwin@georgefox.edu) or Lon Fendall (Center for Global Studies and Center for Peace and Justice) at lfendall@georgefox.edu.

Multicultural Services will host a trip to Portland State University to hear civil rights pioneer Marian Wright Edelman on Thursday, Jan. 17. A van will leave the Stevens Center parking lot in Newberg at 5:30 p.m. for the 7 p.m. lecture, held in honor of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.

Wright Edelman, president of the Children’s Defense Fund, has been an advocate for disadvantaged Americans her entire professional life. She began her career in the mid-’60s when, as the first black woman admitted to the Mississippi Bar, she directed the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund office in Jackson, Miss. In 1968, she was counsel for the Poor People’s Campaign that King began organizing before his death.

General admission is $10 per person; it is free for those with a valid student ID. For more information, contact Burel Ford (Multicultural Services) via e-mail or at ext. 2318.

Do you use a portable electric heater in your office or workspace? Please don’t be a fire hazard to yourself or others in your building. Be sure to follow all the directions included with the heater. Keep all combustible material three feet away from the heater and always turn it off when you leave.

– Plant Services

A fund has been established for the creation of a Colleen Richmond Memorial Scholarship. Colleen, a former associate professor in the Department of Writing and Literature, passed away in January 2007, and this scholarship intends to honor her memory and the students she loved.

The scholarship will be awarded yearly to a writing/literature major with particular interest in international literature and gender studies; Colleen was passionate about both areas in her research and her teaching. We will begin awarding the scholarship for the 2009-10 school year. If you are interested in contributing to this fund, please contact Nancy Almquist (Development) at ext. 2120.

The Portland Center will host community meetings to introduce the two finalists for the vice president of marketing and communications position.

Applicant Rob Westervelt, director of brand management at Biola University, will present from 1:30 to 2:30 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 15, in Room 281. Candidate Laura Brittain, director of Synergy Advertising and Design of Hickory, N.C., will visit from 1:30 to 2:30 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 17, in Room 265.

Both candidates will speak for about 20 minutes on the topic “From what you know or have learned about George Fox University, how would you approach marketing the university and its programs?” A question-and-answer time will follow. All faculty and staff members are invited.

The candidates’ application materials are available online.

Need contact information for university employees? An updated telephone extension and box number list is available. Click on the link and print for your convenience. Contact Sarah Marvin (Telephone Services) at ext. 2099 for updates and corrections.

The university will host community meetings to introduce the two finalists for the vice president of marketing and communications position.

Applicant Rob Westervelt, director of brand management at Biola University, will present from 2:30 to 3:30 p.m. Monday, Jan. 14, in EHS 102. Candidate Laura Brittain, director of Synergy Advertising and Design of Hickory, N.C., will visit from 2:30 to 3:30 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 16, in EHS 102.

Both candidates will speak for about 20 minutes on the topic “From what you know or have learned about George Fox University, how would you approach marketing the university and its programs?” A question-and-answer time will follow. All faculty and staff members are invited.

The candidates’ application materials are available online.

Missions Week is scheduled Jan. 14-16. Dr. Samuel Kamaleson, vice-president-at-large of World Vision and co-founder of Friends Prayer Band of India, will be speaking in chapel Monday and Wednesday. He also will speak at 7:30 p.m. Monday in Hoover 105 and host a talkback lunch at noon Wednesday, Jan. 16, in the Cap and Gown Room.

Chris Lahr from Mission Year will speak at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 15, in Hoover 105. Also, join Chris for lunch Tuesday at noon in the Bruin Den.

The Health and Counseling Center still has flu vaccine available. Call ext. 2340 and make an appointment if you would like a flu shot. Flu shots are free with Pioneer Insurance, $1.50 for students with university health insurance, and $15 with any other type of insurance.

You are invited to an opening reception for “Legacy: Ceramic works from prominent Northwest artists and their collections” from 6 to 8 p.m. Friday, Jan. 11, in Minthorne Gallery (Hoover). The collection of ceramic artwork includes priceless historical artifacts as well as works from internationally prominent contemporary artists. The exhibit runs through Feb. 1.

Marketing and Communications has scheduled photo sessions for faculty and staff who wish to update their pictures on the university’s website. In Newberg, sessions are scheduled Tuesday and Wednesday, Jan. 15-16, from 2 to 4 p.m. both days. Photos will be taken at the River Street House, located at the base of the Stevens Center.

For Portland Center employees, a photo session is set from 2 to 4 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 17, in PDS 296.

Employees who have not updated their photos recently are encouraged to participate. There is no need to R.S.V.P. or sign up.

Wireless internet will be available at the Portland Center; however only the north side of the main (south) building will have internet access on Sat., Jan. 5.

Classes meeting in rooms 155 a & b, 160, 260, and 265 will be uninterrupted.

Complimentary tickets are available for the Build, Remodel & Landscape Show at the Portland Memorial Coliseum.

Dates: Jan 25-27, 2008
Times: Friday, noon – 9 p.m.; Saturday, 10 a.m. – 9 p.m.; Sunday, 11 a.m. – 6 p.m.

Website: homeshowcenter.com

Interested? Contact Missy Terry (Academic Affairs) via e-mail or at ext. 2101.

If you have not already done so, please submit your December time sheet (support staff) or time off report (administrators) this week.  Please be sure it is complete, accurate, and signed by both you and your supervisor before sending it to HR at Box 6108.

If your supervisor is not available to sign it, please send a copy to HR and keep the original until it has been signed. A reminder for completing time sheets: Do not write any hours on the dates marked holidays unless you worked any of the holidays (Dec. 24, 25, 26, and/or 31).

We will be having community lunches this spring from noon to 1 p.m. on the following dates:

Wed., Jan. 16, in Room 285

Wed., Feb. 13, in Room 155

Wed., March 12, in Room 155

Wed., April 9, in Room 155

Bon Appetit will again be serving lunch for $3 or you can also bring your own. We look forward to seeing you there.

After nine and a half years at George Fox, Belinda Pilcher (President’s Office) will be leaving to accept an office manager position at Riverspirit Wellness Center, an acupuncture and nutritional care facility in Newberg. She joined the university in 1998 as an administrative assistant in the Humanities office and has served as executive assistant to the president since June 2003. Her last day will be Friday, Jan. 4.

Please join Belinda and other colleagues from 3 to 4 p.m. Friday, Jan. 4, in the Stevens Center lobby for a farewell reception.

– Human Resources

With Belinda Pilcher’s upcoming departure, we have an opening for Executive Assistant II to provide administrative support to President Robin Baker.
This position has been posted on our website.  You can go to:  jobs.georgefox.edu and click on the support staff jobs link to see the full position announcement.  This position will be open to internal applicants at least through January 4th.  Please contact Human Resources to request a Transfer Request form if you are interested in applying for this position.

After nine and a half years at George Fox, Belinda Pilcher (President’s Office) will be leaving to accept an office manager position at Riverspirit Wellness Center, an acupuncture and nutritional care facility in Newberg. She joined the university in 1998 as an administrative assistant in the Humanities office (later Writing/Literature and Communication Arts) and has served as executive assistant to the president since June 2003. Her service to the university is very much appreciated, and she will be missed. Her last day will be Friday, Jan. 4.

Please join Belinda and other colleagues from 3 to 4 p.m. Friday, Jan. 4, in the Stevens Center lobby for a farewell reception.

– Human Resources

If you have any perishable items in the employee kitchen refrigerator or the refrigerators by the student lounge at the Portland Center, please clean them out by Friday, Dec. 21 at 4:30 p.m.
Any perishable food left in the refrigerators at that time will be thrown out.

Also, if your department has items in the freezers, please take the time to mark the food. Any unmarked food will be thrown out as well.

If you have any questions or concerns, feel free to email Janis Sanford, Assistant Director/Office Manager at jsanford@georgefox.edu

Would you like to attend a super Christian conference in balmy Southern California while it rains in Oregon in February?

If so, you can attend the Student Congress On Racial Reconciliation at Biola University on Feb. 8-10 in La Mirada, Calif. The cost will be $325 per person and is worth every dime. You will have a lot of fun, have fellowship with students from other schools as well as those from George Fox, and learn a lot. Please contact Burel Ford by Jan. 11 at 503-554-2318 or bford@georgefox.edu.